PPACA and Other Lies!

As Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-2) so succinctly put it: “You lie!” Now the Chief Justice and 3 liberal Justices and one moderate Justice of the SCOTUS have said that PPACA is a tax. The President and his Democrat cohorts repeated over and over that it was not a tax. They lied! They deceived the American people in order to get the bill passed. The top interpreters of the Constitution said that justification with the commerce clause would be unConstitutional. Being an “expert”, Obama might have known that, but admitting it as a tax during the Great Recession would doom it.

Is it any surprise that business has been reluctant to add/create jobs with the “largest tax increase in history” facing them? Between COBRA/EMTALA (free emergency treatment for everyone, legal or not) and PPACA and the fact that the United States does not enforce its immigration laws, America should be a giant magnet for foreigners who want part of the largess of Progressive-Socialism.

Everyone is looking to the 6 November election even though ex-ACORN people will be out in force to vote for the dead (life-challenged), and the tabulations will be done by a Spanish company – after being bailed out/funded by the US Export/Import Bank, the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank. The IMF decision will be made by a French woman. France elected a Socialist. The French love Obama's policies!

Limbaugh v. Roberts et al

Hey, folks, have you seen the economic news today? Have you heard about the unemployment numbers today? (laughing) Gross domestic product, have you heard about any of that? Because I have it here, and it sucks. It’s a disaster. The economy of this country remains a disaster. And we, the American people, have just been deceived in ways that nobody contemplated. And what we now have is the biggest tax increase in the history of the world. What we have been told by the chief justice of the Supreme Court and four liberals on the court: Obamacare is just a massive tax increase. That’s all it is. Obama lied to us about that. The Democrats lied. “It wasn’t a tax. There was no way it was a tax.”

The chief justice was hell-bent to find a way to make this law applicable, so he just decided, you know what, as a tax increase, it works, because there’s no limit on the federal government’s ability to tax. And it’s right there in the preamble of the Constitution, right there, Article 1, Section 8, the general welfare clause, it’s been established Congress can tax whatever, whoever, whenever, how much they want. Even when they don’t ask for it, the Supreme Court is gonna find a way to make what they want to do legal because John Roberts said it’s not our job here to forbid this. It’s not our job to protect people from outcomes. It’s not our job to determine whether it is right or wrong or any of that. We just get to look at it. We can’t forbid this. This is what the elected representatives of the people want.

ARIZONA v. UNITED STATES

Today’s opinion deprives States of what most would consider the defining characteristic of sovereignty: the power to exclude from the sovereign’s territory people who have no right to be there. Neither the Constitution itself nor even any law passed by Congress supports this result. I dissent.

As a sovereign, Arizona has the inherent power to exclude persons from its territory, subject only to those limitations expressed in the Constitution or constitutionally imposed by Congress. That power to exclude has longbeen recognized as inherent in sovereignty. Emer de Vattel’s seminal 1758 treatise on the Law of Nations stated: “The sovereign may forbid the entrance of his territory either to foreigners in general, or in particular cases,or to certain persons, or for certain particular purposes, according as he may think it advantageous to the state. There is nothing in all this, that does not flow from the rights of domain and sovereignty: every one is obliged to pay respect to the prohibition; and whoever dares violate it, incurs the penalty decreed to render it effectual.”

ARIZONA v. UNITED STATES Opinion of SCALIA, J.

The ruling protects "the federal government's prerogative to set and enforce immigration policy or, in this case, not to enforce immigration policy."

The Democrat-controlled Congress passed COBRA/EMTALA in 1986 forcing emergency treatment facilities (ETF) to treat anyone who came through their doors. This unfunded mandate has forced the closure of many ETFs. President Reagan compromised on this and amnesty for illegal aliens, because he got solid enforcement laws which would prevent a reoccurence of the problems. Unfortunately these laws were not enforced. The states are also having to educate and provide services for illegals at their own expense.

Sweden Goes More Free-Market

Swedish economist Anders Aslund describes the radical change. "Americans still think of Sweden as a tightly regulated social-welfare state, but in the last two decades the country has been reformed. Public spending has fallen by no less than one-fifth of gross domestic product, taxes have dropped and markets have opened up....

"Sweden’s traditional scourge is taxes, which used to be the highest in the world. The current government has cut them every year and abolished wealth taxes. Inheritance and gift taxes are also gone. Until 1990, the maximum marginal income tax rate was 90 percent. Today, it is 56.5 percent. That is still one of the world’s highest, after Belgium’s 59.4 and there is strong public support for a cut to 50 percent.

"The 26 percent tax on corporate profits may seem reasonable from an American perspective, but Swedish business leaders want to reduce it to 20 percent. Tax competition is fierce in some parts of Europe. Most East European countries, for example, have slashed corporate taxes to 15-19 percent.

"In the bad old days, the annual centralized-wage bargaining between the Trade Union Confederation and the Swedish Employers’ Confederation was a prized custom. But in the 1970s, this system led to both inflation and strikes. Today, it is long gone. Wage bargaining is still collective, but it is decentralized. Wage inflation is no longer a concern and strikes are extremely rare. The employers have won, but real wages are rising with productivity, so the workers are benefiting, as well. As everywhere, trade unions are losing members, money and power. "

Will Someone Vet the Candidates?

I am not a “birther”, but I am skeptical of public officials – even a POTUS – who refuse to release information which can be used to vet them.

As a candidate in 2008, the Democrat-controlled Congress did not properly vet the Democrat candidate. The Certificate of Live Birth on Snopes.com has been declared a forgery by a forensic team in Maricopa County Arizona. College transcripts – which may list Barry Soetoro as a foreign student - are withheld.

I am against the policies of the POTUS because many are unConstitutional – illegal – and will destroy the “rule of law” and eventually the United States of America. Obama shows disdain for the Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Congress. He fires Inspector Generals who criticize his or his apointees' actions. I also believe that the wealth of the United States has come from our free-market economy. A Progressive-Socialist government which controls all aspects of the economy and owns some (GM, AIG, etc.) will fail as others have.

The Fair Tax and The Lies Opponents Tell

If you pay taxes, then you try to minimize your taxable income for income taxes or your assessed value for property taxes. This is counterproductive to a growth economy, and also leads to an underground economy and much fraud. The Fair Tax taxes consumption. With a Fair Tax, frugality is rewarded.

There are many half-lies about the Fair Tax – the most prevalent is omitting a discussion of the prebate. Most detractors tell you that it is a regressive tax which will hurt the poor and elderly the most. The prebate corrects that such that all truly poor and low-income elderly will pay no tax at all. The prebate refunds the sales tax up front up to the poverty line. Another lie is that the Fair Tax adds another tax onto existing taxes. The Fair Tax repeals the 16th Amendment, replaces Federal payroll taxes - including F.I.C.A. Social Security and Medicare taxes – and ends capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes. If you live in one of the states with no income tax, then you will get 100% of your pay on payday. The Fair Tax is also “progressive”. The person who spends only $1,000 will pay only $230 (and get it back with the prebate) and the person who spends $1,000,000 will pay $230,000. So the “rich” who the United States has “rewarded” more will have to pay more.

Many who criticize the Fair Tax – even commentators - have never read The Fair Tax or its sequel. In both these books the authors counter arguments brought up against the Fair Tax while explaining how it works.

If you still dislike the Fair Tax, then keep paying taxes every payday; keep up with changes to the 77,000-page tax code – or pay someone else to -, keep accurate records and worry about IRS audits.

Just for fun, Google “16th Ratification”, and read about Philander Knox commiting fraud by certifying the 16th Amendment as ratified although less than ½ of the states legally approved rather than the ¾ required.

United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)

Email to Sen. Graham (Jim DeMint already supports American sovereignty):

Please vote against the Law of the Sea Treaty and any treaty which will transfer United States sovereignty to the United Nations. We also should pay no more to the United Nations than any other Security Council member - like Togo. We should remain a member since the UN is useful for international debate. If threatened, then we need to respond with the words of Jean Kirkpatrick's deputy "I and my entire delegation will be on the Wall Street pier to wave a fond farewell."